Anyone hauling bulk products with an end dump in the Northeast?

Bunch of salt plants in/around the Finger Lakes (Cargill in Watkins Glen and Lansing, US Salt in Geneseo and Watkins Glen vicinity). Gets pretty busy hauling that around the northeast during winter. I snag a load out of Watkins Glen every now and then, but it's food salt not road salt.

 

End dump with a good tarp. We haul bone meal out, salt back. I work for a meat packing plant, and am not sure what they use the salt for, as it's not the meat products (something to do with the hides, I suspect).

 

A frame less end dump can't handle pay loads over 80000 thus a need for frame. Also if you going OTR you will need to be 39' long to meet bridge laws in many states. Check out US Bulk out of Erie PA. This is a slow time for them but you can make some good coin here after feb.

 

A frameless trailer that is is spec'd right can haul heavy also. In Ont there is frameless triaxles that gross out arond 120,000 on a daily basis. If you are going to try and haul different commodities as a backhaul I would lean toward a frame type. In Detroit I used to see dumps picking up steel coils and loading skidded coils with a fork truck. I think that would take its toll on a frameless trailer.

 

a swing door with a flat bottom dump allows you to haul pallet freight. This is something you should think about because the back haul is just important as the head load. We all had to learn and you will to all it is hard work and don't sit at home.

 

not to mention you are going to have one hell of a time trying to pave with a frameless trailer, framed trailers are more like the tri axles, not really OTR trucks, truck in my sig I usually run 35 ton in, puts me about 102k

 

Find a local or semi local tarp shop if you can. They are a wear item just like your brake pads...how fast depends on what you're hauling and how well you secure the tarp. Personally I like the side to side roll tarps...we haul bone meal, blood meal and table salt, and very seldom have trouble with it getting wet. We're using whatever comes stock on the East Genesis, with a few tweaks to cover the ends better (flap and 5-6 bungees at the rear).